With 600 Road Projects, President Buhari Sets Unbeaten Record, By Garba Shehu
As we mark the 60th Anniversary Day, the record-setting, mega roadways infrastructure development projects by the Buhari administration numbering up to 600 that are undergoing major upgradation or rehabilitation call for public attention and appreciation. The size and magnitude of the road projects notwithstanding, the clamour by Nigerians for more…
Renaissance Reborn: the Thabo Mbeki School and the Transformation of Africa, By Toyin Falola
I join the global community of scholars and policymakers to congratulate South Africa, as a nation, Thabo Mbeki, on this well-deserved honour, and the UNISA, South African Trade Union, as well as the country’s Student Union in the execution of this initiative. I will continue to contribute my quota to…
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A Country Defined, By Obari Gomba
(For Nigeria @ Sixty) The republic is a graveyard. There are beautiful headstones. There are ugly ones too. There are unmarked graves everywhere hiding the bones of legions and legions whose names are lost in a whirlwind. There are broken graves; they give their stench to the air. There are…
A Parvenu Class and the Disintegration of the Lagos Establishment, By Bámidélé Adémólá-Olátéjú
For Lagos to meet its immense, mouth-watering potentials, a new governing class that is in tune with the need to build an all-embracing democracy based on innovations, skills, competition and technology has to be created. The present political establishment have clearly exhausted the limits of its stifling possibilities and is…
How Organised Labour Deceived Nigerians, By Reuben Abati
The government negotiators deserve our commendation. They have done a good job of preventing a “worthless” national embarrassment in the shape of a labour strike in the same week that Nigeria celebrates its 60th Independence Anniversary. They have also helped to expose the incompetence and hypocrisy of the current Labour…
Enhancing ICT Tools To Combat Crimes, By Inyene Ibanga
The combination of a safe, secure environment and quality, strategic alliances between the regulator and stakeholders can foster deliberate engagement for development in the IT sector to tackle the frequent causes of cybercrimes among young online fraudsters, known as yahoo-yahoo boys. It is no longer news that in Nigeria today,…
Is the World Shutting Out Nigeria? Will We Finally ‘Receive Sense’?, By ‘Tope Fasua
If more of our core politicians should be banned by all these countries, under one year they will fix beautiful Nigeria. Let us spend our vacations here. This here’s a wonderful country. Let us fix our education so that our children go to school here. And our health sector too.…
Edo Decides 2020: Does the President Deserve Any Credit?, By Dakuku Peterside
It may be difficult for some to admit but the obvious non-interference of President Muhammadu Buhari, or rather his interference to ensure that there is non-interference and the relative degree of impartiality by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and the security agencies, may have strengthened our electoral system and…
Study Notes on “Revolution” and “National Unity”, By Edwin Madunagu
On the question of “restructuring”, what Nigeria’s ruling class did was to appropriate the idea, empty it of revolutionary content and leave it essentially as a framework for redistributing power within the class, along ethnic and regional lines. They are incapable of seeing in it a framework for the promotion…
The Police and Its Duty To Provide Security To Protesters, By Femi Falana
In view of the clear and unambiguous provision of section 94 (4) of the Electoral Amendment Act 2015, we urge the inspector general of Police and other Police authorities in the country to maintain neutrality and ensure that the role of police personnel is limited to the provision of adequate…
